The 2025 Jeep Wrangler is as noteworthy for the issues it doesn’t have as for the issues it does — issues like an automated transmission, which is able to not be provided with a V6. And crank home windows and guide locks, which are actually banished from probably the most iconic of Jeeps, in addition to from the Gladiator.
The 2025 Gladiator goes automated just for its solely engine choice, that very same V6 — however a 4Xe is coming “someday” on the pickup in 2025.
Stick Stays for Wrangler, Gone for Gladiator
It’s an odd and fantastic shock. When the variety of guide transmission choices decreases yearly, Jeep has determined to buck the development. The 285-horsepower 3.6L V6 engine loses its eight-speed automated for 2025 and can solely be offered with a six-speed stick — the identical one which it’s had for years.
The change to the Gladiator is much less of an exquisite shock. Final 12 months, it got here commonplace with a stick on all grades. This 12 months, it’s eight-speed auto solely, irrespective of which one you need.
Wrangler consumers trying on the 270-horse 2.0L turbo-4 will nonetheless get an eight-speed auto and no third-pedal choice. Similar goes for the Wrangler 4xe PHEV (the bestselling PHEV within the U.S. for the final 3 years) and the bonkers 6.4L 470-horse Wrangler Rubicon 392. The V6 and stick are provided on each Wrangler mannequin apart from the 392 and Sahara.
392 Lives for One other Yr
Sure, the 392 will stay for one more 12 months. Jeep made that announcement a couple of months again. It will likely be referred to as the Remaining Version for the second 12 months in a row, and the monster Jeep comes with manufacturing unit 35s, that enormous engine, and a handful of different particular options.
No Extra Window Cranks or Handbook Locks
Crank home windows, which have been nonetheless commonplace on Sport trim Wrangler and Gladiator fashions, are gone for mannequin 12 months 2025. The identical goes for the ability locks that have been additionally on the entry-level trim grade. Now you get energy operation for each, and we all know that a couple of hard-core Jeepers gained’t be blissful.
One other new optionally available characteristic is Energetic Cabin Air flow. This one allows you to use the Jeep cellular app to activate the cabin followers to chill issues down earlier than you get in. We at all times assumed Jeep house owners simply eliminated the roof or doorways to ventilate the cabin.
Jeep likes to maintain the Wrangler’s paint selections contemporary, and this 12 months is not any totally different. For 2025, consumers can get a shade referred to as ’41. It’s impressed by WW2-era olive-drab Military Jeeps. No, Jeep didn’t give us a photograph with the brand new paint. Gladiator house owners may decide a brand new Fathom Blue paint coloration. No photograph but of that one, both.
Why the Change? Jeep Isn’t Saying
We requested Jeep why it made the transmission modifications, however the reply didn’t actually reply something. A model spokesperson mentioned, “The 2025 Jeep Wrangler options the three.6L V6 engine completely paired with a 6-speed guide transmission, for purchasers who worth the management and engagement of a guide gearbox. We proceed to supply the two.0L engine with the 8-speed automated transmission, thus making certain our prospects can simply select the Wrangler that most closely fits their wants.”
We’d argue that this makes it tougher to discover a Jeep that fits their wants. Nevertheless, Jeep has mentioned in current months that the Wrangler 4xe made up near half of mannequin gross sales. With simply half of consumers choosing the two.0, 392, and V6 fashions, it’s potential that the variety of consumers choosing the V6 and an auto was sufficiently small to justify giving it the axe. Or at the least that Jeep thinks most will transfer to the two.0L.
Small Pricing Modifications, 2025 Fashions Arrive Quickly
The pricing for the 2025 Jeep Wrangler is up by about $600. It now begins at $32,690. Jeep says the 2025 Jeep Gladiator pickup is cheaper than final 12 months, however that’s a contact deceptive. The truck now begins from $38,100. That’s greater than final 12 months’s stick-shift truck, however it is below the $40,395 the truck would have been final 12 months.
The 2025 Gladiator and Wrangler fashions ought to hit sellers shortly.